EC_DICT_DEL(3)

💖 EC_DICT_DEL — bestie, it's giving "delete from hash table" 💖

okay so this is the ec_dict_del(3) page from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual, and honestly? she's short, she's sweet, she's a whole mood. no cap. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ec_dict_del — delete an object from the hash table. that's it. that's the job. bye bestie 👋✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the way you gotta pull in the header first, always:

#include <ecoli/dict.h>

and then, the moment we've all been waiting for:

int ec_dict_del(
    struct ec_dict   *dict,  /* The hash table. */
    const char       *key    /* The key string. Must not be NULL. */
);

okay so real talk about the two things you're handing over:

• dict — this is your hash table. the main character. the whole vibe. 🫶
• key — the key string. and bestie, listen, it must not be NULL. i'm not playing, the manpage says it, so we say it. 🚨

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👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

• 0 — success!! you ate, no crumbs, periodt 💅
• -1 — error 🙈 and lowkey, errno gets set. so check your errno, bestie, she's talking to you.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read these too, they're iconic in their own right, fr fr:

• ec_dict_iter(3)
• ec_dict_has_key(3)
• ec_dict_free(3)
• ec_dict_iter_get_val(3)
• ec_dict_len(3)
• ec_dict_dup(3)
• ec_dict(3)
• ec_dict_set(3)
• ec_dict_get(3)
• ec_dict_dump(3)
• ec_dict_iter_next(3)
• ec_dict_iter_get_key(3)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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not me getting emotional over a delete function 😭 anyway if you pass a NULL key that's on you, i warned you, that's undefined-adjacent chaos energy and we don't do that here 💀

and that's the page, bestie!! this lil drop is from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual, dated 2026-06-11 — write it down, cite it in your commit message, be that girl 🌈⭐🧚🍓💜